Two fights in one night at roller rink

Posted: Sunday, March 09, 2008

Police responded to two fights Friday night at a roller-skating rink on Cherokee Road, citing one woman for disorderly conduct, Athens-Clarke police said.

About 10:15 p.m., two boys racing at the Skate-A-Round rink apparently began to fight when one of them punched the other after the boy grabbed his shirt, police said. The parents of the boy who was hit pulled the other boy off of their son, and witnesses said they saw the parents begin to hit the other boy, though he told police he wasn't hit by an adult, police said.

Later, about 11:45 p.m., police responded to a fight between teenage girls in the parking lot outside the rink, police said.

A 25-year-old relative of one of the teenagers was cited for disorderly conduct for yelling at some of the girls, police said.